Overview
- PSOE and senior government officials confirmed her death on October 16, with Pedro Sánchez and María Jesús Montero posting public tributes.
- Appointed in 1983 as the first director of the newly created Institute for Women, she helped embed equality policy in Spain’s public administration.
- She served as a PSOE deputy for Madrid in the Constituent Legislature from 1977 to 1979.
- She represented Spain on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) from 1985 to 1996.
- During the Transition she pushed for greater female representation in party lists, helped launch Mujer y Socialismo and the Women’s Liberation Front, and later served as undersecretary for Social Affairs from 1988 to 1990.